The ladies masters athletes from the SMTFA competing at the Flash Athletic Meet in Oct at the Bishan Stadium.

9/09/2014

Hillary Clinton: ‘We came, we saw and he died’

The above is the famous joke from Hillary Clinton often quoted to
describe how callous and cavalier the Americans are of the lives of Arabs in the
Middle East. They came, they saw and they executed Saddam Hussein and
many more Arab leaders as if it was a natural thing to do, a fun thing.
The hypocrisy of the American and western policies in the Middle East
is best described by Jeffrey Sachs in his article, ‘Let the Middle East
govern itself’ published in the Today paper this morning. No one, I mean
no Afro Asians, would bother about what I say. They would even pooh
poof it as nonsensical and hysterical if I were to write what Sachs had
written. It is best that it comes from a western intellectual to say the
truth.

Basically what Sachs said was that all the wars of intervention in the
Middle East were never about democracy or human rights. It was all about
oil, about control of a real estate and transit to Asia. All the Arab
leaders and parties are dispensable and would be disposed off when they
turned against American and western interests, meaning too
‘nationalistic, anti Israel, Islamist and dangerous to America’s oil
interests’. The Americans have been supporting practically every group
and party in the region and also in their destruction.

Sachs quoted the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the British and French
that ‘ formed a lasting pattern of destructive outside meddling. With
America’s subsequent emergence as a global power, it treated the Middle
East in the same way, relentlessly installing, toppling, bribing or
manipulating the region’s govts, all the while mouthing democratic
rhetoric.’ These few sentences summarized the ugly intentions of the
Americans and the West in the Middle East. The Americans would only
install a regime that is acceptable to them. Period.
The invasion of Iraq has led to its ‘destruction as a functioning
society in an ongoing civil war, fuelled by outside powers, that has
caused economic ruin and collapsing living standards’ and the death of
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Not to dismiss or ridicule the
beheading of the two American journalists, how could the lives of two
Americans be more precious than the hundreds of thousands of death
inflicted by the Americans on the Arab nations in the Middle East? The
hypocrisy must stop here.

But no, the Americans are hell bent to topple another Arab leader in
Bashar Assad. ‘More than 190,000 Syrians are dead and millions have been
displaced as a result of an insurrection supported by the US and its
allies.’

Everything in the Middle East is about brute force. And as Sachs said,
the rise of ISIS, another creature that Hillary Clinton has been credited as
the grandmother, America intervenes again with more bombings, and
violence rule the day. How does this relate to the article by Thomas
Friedman that the Russians and the Islamic States were all about
violence and brute force when the real culprit of violence and brute
force is none other than the Americans and the West?

Sachs was calling for an end to American and western hypocrisy in the
Middle East, to leave the Arab states alone to deal with their problems
and find their own status quo. As a consoling gesture to the Americans
he said, ‘There is enough hatred, corruption and arms in the region to
keep it in crisis for years to come.’ He knew that this is what the
Ameicans and the West would want to see, a region in perpetual conflict,
dysfunctional economies and govts, and not able to become a threat to
Israel and American/western oil interests in the region.

How much more explicit does it takes to understand what is going on in
the Middle East? Is it about democracy, human rights and about America
and the West helping to keep peace? Don’t be naïve.

16 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Actually the Arabs themselves are also to blame lah.

Do u see the same happening in Asia, in particular East and South EAst Asia? No, tio bo?

In fact Sinkieland even see America as an ally, and a best supplier of powerful weapons to protect Sinkieland from foreign attack and invasion. That's why Sinkieland defence budget is so high to finance all these.

But unfortunately, Sinkieland has already been "invaded", not through weapons and physical fighting, but through Sinkies being displaced from their jobs and physically squeezed in their daily life by hordes of foreign "talents" and cheated by the fake ones.

"But unfortunately, Sinkieland has already been "invaded", not through weapons and physical fighting, but through Sinkies being displaced from their jobs and physically squeezed in their daily life by hordes of foreign "talents" and cheated by the fake ones."Anon 9:10 am

Tiok. And for that, the suffering Sinkies themselves, which includes the Sinkie opposition, are to blame lah, and not the foreign talents or Sinkie govt.

From south amerca, to afrca to mddle east, it is all about POWER aka financial power or economical power or MONEY. Its has never been about people, peace, rights, justice, democracy. It is very difficult to win this game because they does not understand what is united and thus they must learn to dance.

慈喜 took over the Throne when she was at her most attractive.Hilary Clinton is well over the hill at her sunset days.Wont be surprised if Americans called her senile for silly mistake like mee siam mai hum. She may want hamburger mai ham.

The happenings in the Ang Mo Kio Town Council are outrageous. I am not going to elaborate as the details are everywhere. The similarities be...

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